Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"I'm in a funny position right now."J.D. Salinger
"I have a feeling I'm going to be sad."J.D. Salinger
"I was feeling quite strange."J.D. Salinger
"It's very hard to live."J.D. Salinger
"Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them."Joseph Heller
"I want to live forever, or die in the attempt."Joseph Heller
"Life is what happens while you're making other plans."Joseph Heller
"Everybody else's life is a great adventure to read about; your own is something you have to live through."Philip Roth
"Life is full of surprises and seductions and temptations."Philip Roth
"We are all trapped by the circumstances of our birth and time."Philip Roth
"To live is to participate in the great human conversation."Philip Roth
"There is no escape from the human condition."Philip Roth
"We are all products of forces we do not fully understand."Philip Roth
"To live is to be perpetually surprised by what you discover about yourself."Philip Roth
"Life is a series of small humiliations from which we construct meaning."Norman Mailer
"We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."Kurt Vonnegut
"What a terrible waste my life has been."Kurt Vonnegut
"The precarious magic of existence."William S. Burroughs
"The illusion of difference is the only thing that keeps us alive."William S. Burroughs
"Immortality consists largely of boredom."William S. Burroughs
"Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else."David Foster Wallace
"Boredom is a kind of pain too."David Foster Wallace
"Meaning requires commitment."David Foster Wallace
"What kills us is the inability to endure the mundane."David Foster Wallace
"A man is his own most vexing problem."Saul Bellow
"Life has become one big entertainment, and entertainment has become life."Saul Bellow
"We are betrayed by our very nature to live."Saul Bellow
"The paradox of life is that we spend it preparing to live."Joseph Heller
"The only real failure is not trying."Joseph Heller
"Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them."Philip Roth